Journal articles: 'Worker wellbeing'

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Wuytens, Chris, and Sarah De Groof. "Regulating worker-customer relations to improve workers’ wellbeing." European Labour Law Journal 10, no. 2 (April 28, 2019): 154–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2031952519846637.

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Recent developments in the gig economy triggered labour law. Platforms change the relationship between customers and workers causing over-subordination of workers. The over-subordination is caused by customers and the surveys they complete to evaluate the worker. The influence of customers over workers can also be seen in a more traditional setting. However, customers are not always king. It is suggested in this article that surveys can be used as an instrument to build decent labour relationships. Installing the measurement of needs measures the impact of customers on workers. By installing a continuous measure of the needs, we have at our disposal an instrument to fulfil labour law’s wellbeing function. Labour legislation could oblige employers to integrate need satisfaction into their customer surveys and their workers surveys. By doing so, technology allows us to make sure that platform work or any kind of work where workers meet high customer demands, become ‘Innovative forms of work that ensure quality working conditions’, as requested by the European Social Pillar.

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Bryson, Alex, Andrew E. Clark, Richard B. Freeman, and Colin P. Green. "Share capitalism and worker wellbeing." Labour Economics 42 (October 2016): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2016.09.002.

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Butler, Mark, Michael Savic, David William Best, Victoria Manning, Katherine L. Mills, and Dan I. Lubman. "Wellbeing and coping strategies of alcohol and other drug therapeutic community workers: a qualitative study." Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 39, no. 3 (September 10, 2018): 118–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tc-08-2017-0024.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the strategies utilised to facilitate the wellbeing of workers of an alcohol and other drug (AOD) therapeutic community (TC) Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on the findings of a qualitative study that involved in-depth interviews with 11 workers from an Australian AOD TC organisation that provides both a residential TC program and an outreach program. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis Findings Three main interconnected themes emerged through analysis of the data: the challenges of working in an AOD TC organisation, including vicarious trauma, the isolation and safety of outreach workers and a lack of connection between teams; individual strategies for coping and facilitating wellbeing, such as family, friend and partner support and self-care practices; organisational facilitators of worker wellbeing, including staff supervision, employment conditions and the ability to communicate openly about stress. The analysis also revealed cross-cutting themes including the unique challenges and wellbeing support needs of outreach and lived experience workers. Research limitations/implications Rather than just preventing burnout, AOD TC organisations can also play a role in facilitating worker wellbeing. Practical implications This paper discusses a number of practical suggestions and indicates that additional strategies targeted at “at risk” teams or groups of workers may be needed alongside organisation-wide strategies. Originality/value This paper provides a novel and in-depth analysis of strategies to facilitate TC worker wellbeing and has implications for TC staff, managers and researchers.

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Bryson, Alex, Andrew Clark, and Colin Green. "Footsie, yeah! Share prices and worker wellbeing." Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 4, no. 3 (October 21, 2021): 197–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpeo-09-2021-0010.

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PurposeA small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects amongst those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in the economy. The authors contribute to this literature by using two data sets to establish the relationship between share prices on the one hand and worker wellbeing on the other.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the authors use over 20 years of British panel data to show that employee happiness and job satisfaction moves with share prices among those whose pay is partly determined by company fortunes. The authors then examine share price movements and employee stock holding in a single corporation and provide suggestive evidence that an increase in the firm’s stock price increases the well-being of those who belong to its employee share purchase plan (ESPP). These effects are greatest among those making the largest monthly contributions to the program who have the most to gain (or lose) from stock price fluctuations. There is also tentative evidence that the well-being effects of a higher share price are larger for those who hold more shares. Taken together these results suggest that, although stock price movements have little effect on well-being in the population at large, the well-being of those holding stock in their own company rises when the price of that stock is higher, suggesting the effects of share prices work at least partly via changes in wealth.FindingsTaken together these results suggest that the wellbeing effects of share prices work at least partly via changes in wealth.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors cannot be certain that the job satisfaction movements they see are causally linked to share plan participation and bonus receipt. Future research might fruitfully examine the mechanisms at play, and whether the effects identified here are linked to differences in employee motivation and effort over the business cycle.Practical implicationsFirms may wish to consider the appropriateness of linking their workers’ pay to firm performance through share plans or profit shares to establish whether this improves worker wellbeing.Social implicationsThe utility of workers may increase where firms offer some compensation via a share plan or profit share.Originality/valueThe literature suggests a link between share price movements and worker wellbeing, but the reasons for the link are contested. Using two very different data sources, the authors are able to show that share price increases induce higher worker wellbeing, at least in part, through wealth effects.

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Levi, Lennart. "Work, worker and wellbeing: An overview." Work & Stress 8, no. 2 (April 1994): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678379408259981.

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Miles, Lilian. "The Capabilities Approach and Worker Wellbeing." Journal of Development Studies 50, no. 8 (December 19, 2013): 1043–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.866220.

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Shearer, Jane, Terry E. Graham, and Tina L. Skinner. "Nutra-ergonomics: influence of nutrition on physical employment standards and the health of workers." Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism 41, no. 6 (Suppl. 2) (June 2016): S165—S174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2015-0531.

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The importance of ergonomics across several scientific domains, including biomechanics, psychology, sociology, and physiology, have been extensively explored. However, the role of other factors that may influence the health and productivity of workers, such as nutrition, is generally overlooked. Nutra-ergonomics describes the interface between workers, their work environment, and performance in relation to their nutritional status. It considers nutrition to be an integral part of a safe and productive workplace that encompasses physical and mental health as well as the long-term wellbeing of workers. This review explores the knowledge, awareness, and common practices of nutrition, hydration, stimulants, and fortified product use employed prior to physical employment standards testing and within the workplace. The influence of these nutra-ergonomic strategies on physical employment standards, worker safety, and performance will be examined. Further, the roles, responsibilities, and implications for the applicant, worker, and the employer will be discussed within the context of nutra-ergonomics, with reference to the provision and sustainability of an environment conducive to optimize worker health and wellbeing. Beyond physical employment standards, workplace productivity, and performance, the influence of extended or chronic desynchronization (irregular or shift work) in the work schedule on metabolism and long-term health, including risk of developing chronic and complex diseases, is discussed. Finally, practical nutra-ergonomic strategies and recommendations for the applicant, worker, and employer alike will be provided to enhance the short- and long-term safety, performance, health, and wellbeing of workers.

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Böckerman, Petri, Alex Bryson, and Pekka Ilmakunnas. "Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84, no. 2 (November 2012): 660–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.09.005.

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De Reuver, Renée, Brigitte Kroon, Damian Madinabeitia Olabarria, and Unai Elorza Iñurritegui. "Employee Satisfaction in Labor-Owned and Managed Workplaces: Helping Climate and Participation Spillover to Non-Owners." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 16, 2021): 3278. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063278.

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In contrast to shareholder-owned organizations, worker-owned cooperative organizations foster employee wellbeing such as employee satisfaction as an important outcome by itself. Due to expansions and economic fluctuations, larger worker-owned cooperations nowadays use mixtures of employment contracts resulting in varying shares of co-owners, contracted and temporary employees in workplaces. In the current paper, we research if this situation challenges the moral commitment of worker cooperatives to their employees, which derive from the cooperative philosophy on corporate responsibility. Where previous research contrasted employee wellbeing in worker cooperatives with share- holder owner organizations, this paper describes how various shares of co-owners in workplaces change mediating processes of helping climate and workplace participation and ultimately result in different levels of employee satisfaction. Archival data combined with survey data of 5907 employees in 99 hypermarkets were tested with multivariate analyses, and indicated that the helping climate and workplace participation positively mediated the association between the share of co-owners in hypermarkets and employee satisfaction. The findings imply that traditional worker-owned cooperatives, where a majority of all workers are owners, had more success in fostering cooperative values as a strategic outcome.

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Hung, Jason. "Psychosocial Wellbeing Among Rural Migrant Workers in China: Did the 2008 Financial Crisis Worsen Their Vulnerability?" Asian Social Science 16, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v16n1p54.

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Background. Since 1980, China has been experiencing the largest migration in human history to urban areas. Rural migrant workers are exposed to disproportionate stress, a sense of marginality, language barriers and low social positions. Stress plays a significant role in the development of psychosocial challenges, including anxiety, hostility and depressive symptoms, as well as diagnosable conditions, including compulsive and post-traumatic stress disorders. This project questions whether rural migrant workers were particularly vulnerable in terms of psychosocial wellbeing after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, one of the major incidents marking the worst turmoil of the 2008 financial crisis. Methods. Data from the Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) 2007-08 and 2008-09 datasets were used for analyses. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) -12 scores, categorised as the presence of common mental disorders (CMDs) vs. the absence of CMDs, were chosen as the dependent variable. Socioeconomic status was measured as per hukou status, job nature and working hours, each treated as an independent variable. City, gender, age, ethnicity and educational level were taken into account as confounders. Cross-tabulations and binary logistic regression analyses were run. The software package STATA 14.2 was used for secondary data analysis. Results. The more educational qualifications rural migrant worker samples received, the more likely they were to be free from CMDs. However, tertiarily-educated rural migrant worker samples enjoyed similar levels of mental wellbeing as their counterparts who had completed elementary school or below. Additionally, there was no statistical evidence to suggest that rural migrant worker samples were more likely to experience CMDs based on their job nature (non-manual vs. manual vs. self-employed vs. family business) or working hours (< 60 hours per week vs. 60-119 hours per week vs. >= 120 hours per week). Conclusions. The optimal rural migrant workers’ educational level, in terms of maximising their mental wellbeing, was between senior secondary school and post-secondary school level. However, socioeconomic factors, namely, job nature and working hours, were insignificant determinants of mental wellbeing of rural migrant workers. Moreover, there was no evidence suggesting rural migrant workers suffered from a distinct mental wellbeing between 2008 and 2009.

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Clark, Robert L., Melinda Sandler Morrill, and Steven G. Allen. "Effectiveness of Employer-Provided Financial Information: Hiring to Retiring." American Economic Review 102, no. 3 (May 1, 2012): 314–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.3.314.

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Workers plan and save for retirement throughout their careers. Individuals must navigate complex financial instruments and understand public and employer-provided retirement plan characteristics. Beginning when a worker is first hired, most employers provide the option to contribute to retirement saving plans. As workers near retirement, they face many choices that have considerable consequences for their retirement income security. At these two important periods, employers can provide timely information assisting workers in making choices that optimize lifetime wellbeing. Our research, conducted in cooperation with several large employers, illustrates the importance of employer-provided education in increasing worker understanding of several retirement-related issues.

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Dally, Miranda, Lyndsay Krisher, Francesca Macaluso, Katherine A. James, and Lee S. Newman. "Workers and Climate Change: The Need for Academic–Industry Partnerships to Improve Agricultural Worker Health, Safety, and Wellbeing." Sustainability 14, no. 11 (May 31, 2022): 6717. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14116717.

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Climate change will have negative consequences for human health worldwide. Agricultural workers are especially vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change. This communication demonstrates how a Total Worker Health® approach is utilized to protect Guatemalan agricultural workers from the negative health effects of climate change. DrPH researchers work alongside local partners to develop, implement, and evaluate climate adaptation strategies and other interventions to improve agricultural worker health, safety, and wellbeing. Training in public health ethics, communications, and leadership gives DrPH researchers the tools to help create successful academic–industry partnerships that increase local capacity and have sustainable public health impact.

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Bromfield, Sheldon M. "Worker Agency versus Wellbeing in the Enforced Work-From-Home Arrangement during COVID-19: A Labour Process Analysis." Challenges 13, no. 1 (March 17, 2022): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/challe13010011.

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This article offers a theorization based on selected literature focused on problematizing the work-from-home phenomenon. It incorporates labour process theory and the work-from-home literature to dissect the impact of enforced working from home procedures during COVID-19. The article presents the advantages to working from home from the existing work-from-home literature and draws on labour process theory to challenge these advantages. The disadvantages discussed in this article include constant availability, enhanced productivity with unpaid labour, loss of worker subjectivity, identity conflicts, and extracting productivity while downloading costs of production to workers. While the advantages include enhanced autonomy, reduction in unproductive time and increased affordances in participation, empowerment and worker agency, the article weighs the potential, parallel impacts of worker control and reduction in personal wellbeing. Although it seems that the work-from-home arrangement is, predominantly, here to stay, I argue that workers consent to their demise, as the dark side of enforced work-from-home arrangements detract from the benefits of in-person social relations of work and learning.

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Simpson, Hailey M., Catie Cramer, Lily Edwards-Callaway, Lorann Stallones, Sofia Thompson, Sari Ennis, Elizabeth Kim, and I. Noa Roman-Muniz. "PSV-5 Dairy worker perspectives on performing euthanasia as an essential component of their job." Journal of Animal Science 98, Supplement_4 (November 3, 2020): 216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa278.398.

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Abstract Euthanasia is a critical component of dairy management as it provides a way to alleviate animal suffering. Limited research explores dairy worker perspectives regarding their role in performing euthanasia or the impact of this practice on worker wellbeing. Additionally, training offered to caretakers is inconsistent in content and frequency and lacks cultural congruence. This project aimed to identify how euthanasia methods, procedures, and training affect caretaker attitudes towards performing on-farm euthanasia, job satisfaction and sense of well-being of dairy workers and managers. Focus groups, facilitated by Colorado State University researchers, were conducted at five large Colorado dairies. Thirty-eight animal caretakers (workers, n = 29; managers, n = 8; and veterinarians, n = 1) participated in focus groups according to their job description and language of choice (English or Spanish). Focus groups were recorded for subsequent transcription and translation. Thematic analysis was performed to identify recurring themes in the transcripts. Themes that emerged from the focus groups included: stressors related to physical, work, and social environments; euthanasia techniques, frequency, process, decision making, and who performs this task; the language used when referring to euthanasia; animal welfare; and the effect of the human-animal bond on euthanasia decision-making and performing euthanasia. Preliminary analysis of themes indicated that multiple factors influence how euthanasia is performed and the euthanasia decision-making process. Additionally, euthanasia and job-related tasks were identified as sources of stress for dairy workers. Strength of the human-animal bond and worker compassion towards the animals they care for were evident for all participants. Initial analysis showed a lack of caretaker awareness regarding mental health services available in their community. Training programs on dairy farms should incorporate worker health and safety, particularly as it pertains to performing euthanasia, and address the mental wellbeing of dairy workers. Information regarding mental health services in the community should also be accessible to caretakers.

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Tasnim, Zerin, and Afreen Ahmad Hasnain. "Identifying the Factors of a Happy Worker: Case of Private Banks of Bangladesh." Global Disclosure of Economics and Business 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2016): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/gdeb.v5i1.125.

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A happy worker at workplace has a direct impact on the overall quality of his/her life and therefore it’s very important to understand what makes us happy or unhappy at work. Also a happy worker is an important factor for all organizations development and to enhance its productivity. A company should focus on workers to be happy because of their own improvement. But, surprisingly, there is an absence of sound framework for understanding such an important issue from both workers’ and organization’s perspective. This study focus on various kinds of workplaces of Bangladesh and for this purpose a survey is done among 200 employees of six private banks within both male and female employees. The present study focuses on five particular phenomena related to identify the dimensions of a happy worker as psychological wellbeing, peer behavior, work family conciliation, work stress, management cooperation and personal development.

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Peiró, José, Malgorzata Kozusznik, Isabel Rodríguez-Molina, and Núria Tordera. "The Happy-Productive Worker Model and Beyond: Patterns of Wellbeing and Performance at Work." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 3 (February 6, 2019): 479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030479.

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According to the happy-productive worker thesis (HPWT), “happy” workers perform better than “less happy” ones. This study aimed to explore the different patterns of relationships between performance and wellbeing, synergistic (i.e., unhappy-unproductive and happy-productive) and antagonistic (i.e., happy-unproductive and unhappy-productive), taking into account different operationalizations of wellbeing (i.e., hedonic vs. eudaimonic) and performance (i.e., self-rated vs. supervisors’ ratings). It also explored different demographic variables as antecedents of these patterns. We applied two-step cluster analysis to the data of 1647 employees. The results indicate four different patterns—happy-productive, unhappy-unproductive, happy-unproductive, and unhappy-productive—when performance is self-assessed, and three when it is assessed by supervisors. On average, over half of the respondents are unhappy-productive or happy-unproductive. We used multidimensional logistic regression to explain cluster membership based on demographic covariates. This study addresses the limitations of the HPWT by including both the hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of wellbeing and considering different dimensions and sources of evaluation. The “antagonistic” patterns identify employees with profiles not explicitly considered by the HPWT.

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Hall, Anita R., and Brandi Duggins. "Leadership, Communication, and Worker Wellbeing during the Early Pandemic Response." Journal of Library Administration 62, no. 4 (May 9, 2022): 494–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2022.2057129.

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Quinlan, Michael. "Organisational restructuring/downsizing, OHS regulation and worker health and wellbeing." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 30, no. 4-5 (July 2007): 385–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2007.06.010.

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Barber, Kevin, and Carolyn Wallace. "“Happily independent” – configuring the Gwent frailty support and wellbeing worker." Journal of Integrated Care 20, no. 5 (September 28, 2012): 308–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14769011211270756.

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Sorensen, Glorian, Susan Peters, Karina Nielsen, Eve Nagler, Melissa Karapanos, Lorraine Wallace, Lisa Burke, Jack T. Dennerlein, and Gregory R. Wagner. "Improving Working Conditions to Promote Worker Safety, Health, and Wellbeing for Low-Wage Workers: The Workplace Organizational Health Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 8 (April 24, 2019): 1449. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081449.

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This paper addresses a significant gap in the literature by describing a study that tests the feasibility and efficacy of an organizational intervention to improve working conditions, safety, and wellbeing for low-wage food service workers. The Workplace Organizational Health Study tests the hypothesis that an intervention targeting the work organization and environment will result in improvements in workers’ musculoskeletal disorders and wellbeing. This ongoing study is being conducted in collaboration with a large food service company. Formative evaluation was used to prioritize outcomes, assess working conditions, and define essential intervention elements. The theory-driven intervention is being evaluated in a proof-of-concept trial, conducted to demonstrate feasibility and potential efficacy using a cluster randomized design. Ten worksites were randomly assigned to intervention or control conditions. The 13-month intervention uses a comprehensive systems approach to improve workplace policies and practices. Using principles of participatory engagement, the intervention targets safety and ergonomics; work intensity; and job enrichment. The evaluation will provide a preliminary assessment of estimates of the intervention effect on targeted outcomes and inform understanding of the intervention implementation across worksites. This study is expected to provide insights on methods to improve working conditions in support of the safety and wellbeing of low-wage workers.

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Arasu, Dr R. "An Empirical Study On Employee's Welfare Facilities In Hospitals In Madurai." Journal of Social Responsibility,Tourism and Hospitality, no. 22 (February 3, 2022): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jsrth.22.1.5.

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Wellbeing, security and welfare are the measures of advancing the productivity of representative. The different welfare measures gave by the business will have prompt effect on the wellbeing, physical and mental proficiency, readiness, spirit and general effectiveness of the laborer and along these lines adding to the higher efficiency. The essential propose of representative welfare is to improve the life of workers and to keep them upbeat and directed. Welfare measures might be both statutory and non-statutory; laws require the business to extend certain advantages to representatives notwithstanding wages or pay rates. In the present study an endeavor has been made to think about the worker welfare offices and its effect on representatives effectiveness at Apollo healing center, Madurai The study demonstrate the Employees welfare offices and its effect on workers productivity at Apollo clinic, Madurai seem great. The normal mean score and rate score of the generally speaking of 22 things has been figured at 3.64(66%).It can be presume that the worker welfare offices gave by the organization to representatives are fulfilled and it is exemplary, yet of degree is there for further change. So that proficiency, viability and profitability can be improved to perform the hierarchical objectives.

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Kakar, Inayat Singh, Apeksha Mallya, Lana Whittaker, Rachel Tolhurst, and Surekha Garimella. "Intersecting Systems of Power Shaping Health and Wellbeing of Urban Waste Workers in the Context of COVID-19 in Vijayawada and Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India." Social Sciences 11, no. 8 (July 28, 2022): 333. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080333.

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Background: Waste work in India is an undervalued role relegated to historically marginalised communities. The informal nature of their work coupled with lack of state regulation keeps waste workers trapped in poverty. This study aims to understand how intersecting systems and relations of power impact the agency of waste workers to shape their health and wellbeing. Methods: We used in-depth interviews, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions to collect primary data from waste worker communities in Vijayawada and Guntur in India. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data using conceptual frameworks relating to wellbeing and power. Results: Inter-generational poverty and lack of access to social determinants of health keeps waste workers trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty. They experience negative wellbeing owing to material and relational deprivations that are sustained by a nexus of power relations, explained using the themes of “power over”, “power to”, “power with”, and “power-within”. Conclusions: The ability of communities to exercise agency is constrained by the power exercised on their lives by the state and society. NGOs play a supportive role for the realisation of rights, but the ability of waste workers to organize and effect change is limited to coping strategies.

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Seekles, Maaike L., and Paula Ormandy. "Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: The nexus between health and social care for renal patients." PLOS ONE 17, no. 9 (September 26, 2022): e0275007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275007.

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Introduction Patients living with progressive chronic kidney disease may face a variety of ongoing physical, emotional, financial and/or social challenges along the disease pathway. In most UK renal units, psychosocial support has traditionally been provided by a renal social worker. However, in recent years, the numbers of renal social workers have been declining. The specialised role is poorly understood and there is no UK research about the profession. To inform future research and guide workforce planning, this study presents the first-ever exploration of the UK renal social worker role. It aimed to map the profession’s activities and reasons for involvement in patient care, as well as providing an initial evaluation of that involvement on patient wellbeing. Methods and analysis This mixed-method study recruited adult renal social workers (n = 14), who completed diaries over a 4-month period, participated in a focus group, and provided secondary data (caseload data and audit files where available) to give insight into their role. The evaluation of social work involvement on patient wellbeing used a pre-post intervention design. It measured distress, anxiety and depression levels as captured by the Distress Thermometer and Emotional Thermometers. A total of 161 patients completed the pre-involvement questionnaire, and 87 (55%) returned the post-involvement questionnaire. Results and conclusion The renal social worker role is creative, broad and fluid, with variations in roles linked to differences in employment and funding arrangements, configurations of the wider multidisciplinary renal team, level of standardisation of psychosocial care, availability of community services, and staff-to-patient ratios. Renal social work is different from statutory social work, and renal social workers are generally able to offer continuous rather than episodic care and support patients that would not meet strict local authority eligibility criteria. The findings showed that this support leads to significantly reduced distress and anxiety.

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Isham, Amy, Simon Mair, and Tim Jackson. "Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link." Ecological Economics 184 (June 2021): 106989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106989.

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Lepinteur, Anthony. "The shorter workweek and worker wellbeing: Evidence from Portugal and France." Labour Economics 58 (June 2019): 204–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.05.010.

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Laib, Magdalena, Christina Haspel, Christopher Stockinger, Lucas Polanski-Schräder, Philipp Dücker, Kristian Voll, Patrizia Schiffrer, and Michael Burmester. "Wellbeing at Work—Emotional Impact on Workers Using a Worker Guidance System Designed for Positive User Experience." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 6, no. 10 (October 12, 2022): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mti6100087.

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Wellbeing at work can be achieved through different strategies; designing for a positive user experience (UX) is one way. However, the relationship between wellbeing and professionally used technology is rather unexplored, especially in work areas that are far from desktop work such as worker guidance systems (WGSs) used in assembly processes. In this paper, we first described a qualitative evaluation (using the valence method) of a prototype WGS designed for a positive UX. The evaluation showed that it elicited far more positive than negative feelings. Based on the results, we improved and redesigned the prototype. We then implemented it in a realistic setting and quantitatively compared it with an established WGS. It was shown that the prototype elicited more positive feelings than the established system, whereas there were no differences in the number of negative markers. Thus, one can assume that the improvement of UX in the redesigned system was due to the positive UX design concepts. However, there were no significant differences in the mood questionnaires. The paper showed that positive experiences at work can be achieved when the design of professional technology is focused on a positive UX. Long-term studies should further investigate whether these experiences lead to a generally elevated mood.

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Joss, Nerida, Eliette Dupré-Husser, Amanda Cooklin, and Brian Oldenburg. "The emergence of integrated approaches to worker health, safety and wellbeing in Australia." Australian Journal of Primary Health 23, no. 2 (2017): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py16065.

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Integrated approaches to worker health, safety and wellbeing have been progressively developed and implemented internationally for over a decade; however, implementation in the Australian context is still in the early stages. Integrated workplace interventions recognise the interaction between health protection and health promotion to create a workplace culture in which health, safety and wellbeing are valued and managed efficiently, together with a view to improve organisational productivity. The present paper describes the progress of integrated approaches in six Victorian workplaces considered early adopters and identifies the drivers for further policy and program development in this area. Using a qualitative exploratory multiple case study design, organisational documents were systematically analysed and semi-structured interviews were conducted in six organisations that met criteria for an integrated approach. Key mechanisms to support this approach were observed, including active leadership, the development of an integrated committee for activities, clear strategies to engage employees and an existing commitment to safety practices. The prioritisation within a workplace to integrate health, safety and wellbeing, and ensure sustainability of these approaches, was detected as a gap for future development.

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Prushinskaya, Olga, Jamie Pockrandt, Julian McKinley, and Melissa Hoover. "When workers matter most: a study of worker cooperatives and the prioritization of workers through COVID-19." Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 4, no. 2 (November 15, 2021): 106–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpeo-08-2021-0009.

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PurposeAs a part of the authors’ continued efforts to understand the experience and trends related to small business cooperatives, the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) and the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI) explored themes around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces.Design/methodology/approachThe USFWC and DAWI conduct a biannual Economic Census of worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces. Survey themes this year included questions around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual firms.FindingsGeneral findings indicate that worker cooperatives experienced financial losses similar to conventional small businesses, but that this varied widely by industry. Although it has been found that BIPOC-owned conventional small businesses have been some of the hardest hit during the pandemic, the authors find that there may be some mitigating protective effects of the worker cooperative form when the authors explore the impacts on worker cooperatives with a majority BIPOC workforce. Additionally, the authors find that worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces strive to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their workers even when facing significant financial challenges throughout the pandemic.Research limitations/implicationsThis research utilizes non-random convenience sampling in data collection. The outreach for our biannual Economic Census is concentrated on a highly connected worker cooperative and democratic workplace network, the experiences of which may not generalize to the larger worker cooperative and democratic workplace landscape. Additionally, outreach efforts were hindered by challenges presented by the pandemic that were not present in prior census years, as was firm bandwidth to respond, which likely affected the sample composition in comparison to prior years.Originality/valueWorker cooperatives have been proven to be a resilient crisis response form of business, but little is known about how the worker cooperative ecosystem in the United States is faring in the face of the continuing COVID-19 crisis.

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Fursland, Eileen. "Meet the Matchmaker." Children and Young People Now 2015, no. 19 (September 15, 2015): 22–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/cypn.2015.19.22.

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Mackrill, Thomas, Frank Ebsen, and Helle Antczak. "Developing scales for apps together - youth and municipal case worker perspectives." Advances in Social Work 16, no. 1 (July 27, 2015): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/18292.

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This article reports the initial findings of a Danish action research project aiming to develop a digital tool that young persons could use to inform their municipal case workers about their wellbeing. The project vision was an integrated system with a smartphone interface for young persons, and a web interface for case workers, whereby both parties could track how the young persons were doing. Three meetings were held between researchers, software developers, young persons and their case workers. The young persons rejected self-monitoring on a normative scale. They rejected a scale proposed by case workers that encouraged them to focus on a positive future, favoring a scale which enabled them to focus on their wellbeing being low. The young persons and case workers disagreed about how data regarding change should be presented. Case workers preferred a graph that highlighted risk, where young persons favored a graph that emphasized positive change.

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Lee, Jin, Robert Henning, and Martin Cherniack. "Correction Workers’ Burnout and Outcomes: A Bayesian Network Approach." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 2 (January 20, 2019): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16020282.

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The present study seeks to demonstrate how Bayesian Network analysis can be used to support Total Worker Health® research on correction workers by (1) revealing the most probable scenario of how psychosocial and behavioral outcome variables in corrections work are interrelated and (2) identifying the key contributing factors of this interdependency relationship within the unique occupational context of corrections work. The data from 353 correction workers from a state department of corrections in the United States were utilized. A Bayesian Network analysis approach was used to probabilistically sort out potential interrelations among various psychosocial and behavioral variables. The identified model revealed that work-related exhaustion may serve as a primary driver of occupational stress and impaired workability, and also that exhaustion limits the ability of correction workers to get regular physical exercise, while their interrelations with depressed mood, a lack of work engagement, and poor work-family balance were also noted. The results suggest the importance of joint consideration of psychosocial and behavioral factors when investigating variables that may impact health and wellbeing of correction workers. Also, they supported the value of adopting the Total Worker Health® framework, a holistic strategy to integrate prevention of work-related injury and illness and the facilitation of worker well-being, when considering integrated health protection and promotion interventions for workers in high-risk occupations.

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Huo, Meng-Long, Peter Boxall, and Gordon W. Cheung. "How does line-manager support enhance worker wellbeing? A study in China." International Journal of Human Resource Management 31, no. 14 (January 5, 2018): 1825–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1423103.

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Berg, Laurie, Bassina Farbenblum, and Angela Kintominas. "Addressing Exploitation in Supply Chains: Is technology a game changer for worker voice?" Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 14 (April 27, 2020): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.14197/atr.201220144.

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Multinational businesses are facing mounting pressure to identify and address risks of exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery in their supply chains. Digital worker reporting tools present unprecedented opportunities for lead firms to reach out directly to hard-to-reach workers for feedback on their working conditions via their mobile phone. These new technologies promise an efficient and cost-effective way to cut through the complexity of global production, gathering unmediated data on working conditions directly from workers at scale. As the market for these tools grows, this paper contextualises their emergence within the broader political economy of supply chain governance. It presents three sets of concerns about their use that must be addressed by businesses, investors, donors and governments that develop or utilise these tools. First, the quality of data gathered by these tools may be inadequate to reliably inform decision-making. Second, global brands may gather large quantities of worker data to identify legal, reputational and financial risks without addressing structural causes of exploitation or delivering outcomes for workers. Third, large scale collection of data from workers creates new risks for workers’ wellbeing and safety.

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Sullivan, Corrinne. "‘Hot, Young, Buff’: An Indigenous Australian Gay Male View of Sex Work." Social Inclusion 9, no. 2 (April 15, 2021): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i2.3459.

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Research has historically constructed youths who are involved in sex work as victims of trafficking, exploitation, poverty, and substance abuse. These perceptions often cast the sex worker as deviant and in need of ‘care’ and ‘protection.’ Rarely seen are accounts that provide different perspectives and positioning of youth engaged in sex work. This article explores the lived experiences of Jack, a young gay cis-male who identifies as Indigenous Australian. Despite being a highly successful sex worker, his involvement in such a stigmatised occupation means that he must navigate the social and cultural perceptions of ‘deviant’ and ‘dirty’ work. This qualitative study explores the ways in which Jack negotiates his work, his communities, and the capitalisation of his sexuality. Drawing on Indigenous Standpoint Theory and wellbeing theory, Jack’s choice of sex work is explored through the intersections of sexuality and culture, with the consequences of Jack’s social and emotional wellbeing emerging as his narrative unfolds.

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Chen, Maria, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, Sabina Magliocco, and Daniel M. Weary. "Employee Management and Animal Care: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Large-Scale Dairy Farms in China." Animals 11, no. 5 (April 27, 2021): 1260. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11051260.

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Farm management can directly and indirectly affect animal care. We explored how farm management affected animal care on two large dairy farms in China (anonymized as Farm A and Farm B). We used a mini-ethnographic case study design whereby the first author lived for 38 days on Farm A and 23 days on Farm B. She conducted participant observation and ethnographic interviews with farm staff positions within five departments in Farm A and six departments in Farm B. In addition, she conducted 13 semi-structured interviews (seven on Farm A; six on Farm B). We used template analysis to generate key themes. On both farms, workers believed that animal care practices had improved over time, due to three key employee management factors: 1) organizational culture, 2) competency of worker and management, and 3) an effective incentive system. Our results suggest that animal care may be improved in this context by: 1) promoting a culture in which workers have ‘grit’ and are eager to learn, 2) ensuring basic worker wellbeing, and 3) using animal care outcomes as performance indicators linked to pay.

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Yakubu, Idris Muhammad, and Srikanta Banerjee. "Reasons for Obstetric Scan Among Pregnant Women in Keffi, Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study of a Low-Cost Ultrasound Centre." International Journal of Studies in Nursing 5, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/ijsn.v5i4.843.

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Ultrasound is a safe diagnostic tool used in pregnancy to detect significant causes of foeto-maternal mortality. We explored the reasons for an obstetric scan in 400 randomly selected pregnant women attending a low-cost ultrasound centre in Nigeria. We used a cross-sectional analysis using a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire.The results showed that the participants were aged 27.37±5.96 years, 76% literate, 68.5% Muslims, 50.5% small-scale self-employees, and 31.45% grand-multiparous. The reasons for an obstetric scan were foetal well-being (44.2%), referral by a health worker (34%), gender determination (9.7%), vaginal bleeding (4.8%), confirmation of pregnancy (2.6%), due-date determination (2.5%), foetal weight estimation (2.1%), and foetal number (0.1%). Spouse education with foetal wellbeing (p = .001), gender determination (p = .002), and dating of gestation (p = .002); participants’ occupation with referral by a health worker (p = .026) and confirmation of pregnancy (p = .044); spouse occupation with foetal wellbeing (p = .004) and vaginal bleeding (p < .001); daily household income with referral by a health worker (p < .001) and pregnancy dating (p = .005); and religion with gender determination (p = .007). Health education and improved access to ultrasound services will go a long way in improving maternal/child health.

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Lovakov, A. V. "Negative Effects of Organizational Identification of the Worker: Role of the Workaholism." Social Psychology and Society 8, no. 2 (2017): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/sps.2017080204.

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In the previous researches it is shown that the strong feeling of identification of the worker with the organization has a row of positive correlates both for the worker, and for the organization. However, in several recent researches the empirical evidence of presence at organizational identification of negative correlates are obtained. In this research communication of organizational identification and wellbeing of the worker is studied, namely, the assumption of a mediation role of workaholism is tested. The results received by means of the survey of 1783 employees of the large Russian organization showed that the level of organizational identification of the worker promotes increase for it in excessiveness and compulsiveness of work that in turn, promotes the increase of its emotional exhaustion and the work-family conflict. These results show a dual role of identification of the worker with the organization, empirically show presence at organizational identification of potential negative effects, and also explain one of mechanisms of their emergence.

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Besong, James. "The Unsatisfying Wellbeing of the Local International Company Worker in the Third World." TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 3, no. 2 (November 22, 2017): 320–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.21522/tijmg.2015.03.02.art029.

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Guest, David. "Human Resource Management, Corporate Performance and Employee Wellbeing: Building the Worker into HRM." Journal of Industrial Relations 44, no. 3 (September 2002): 335–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1472-9296.00053.

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Elliason, Eric Kwasi. "Influence of Occupational Stress and Social Relationship at the Workplace on the Psychological Wellbeing of Nurses and Midwives in the Catholic Health Service of the Western Region of Ghana." Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences 2, no. 12 (December 2021): 1291–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.37871/jbres1384.

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This study investigated the influence of occupational stress and social relationship at the workplace on the psychological wellbeing of nurses and midwives in the Catholic Health Service of the Western Region of Ghana. A cross-sectional descriptive study was employed for the study. A sample of 300 nurses and midwives was used for the investigation. A questionnaire based on Nurses' Occupational Stress Scale was adopted to measure occupational stress among the nurses and midwives and Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing Scale (PWB 18 items) to measure psychological wellbeing among nurses and midwives and the Worker Relationship Scale developed by Biggs, Swailes and Baker was used to measure social relationships at the workplace. For statistical analysis, Linear Regression Analysis for statistical purposes. The study’s result indicated that occupational stress explained 18.1% psychological wellbeing variances. It was also found that occupational stress predicted psychological wellbeing among nurses and midwives in the Catholic Health Service of the Western Region. The study’s result further revealed that social interaction and experiences among health professionals (nurses and midwives) at the workplace significantly determine their psychological wellbeing. It was recommended that nurses and midwives should be trained on better ways of dealing with occupational stress in order to stay psychologically sound.

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Tigchelaar, Alex. "Sex Worker Resistance in the Neoliberal Creative City: An auto/ethnography." Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 12 (April 29, 2019): 15–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14197/atr.201219122.

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Sex workers are subjects of intrigue in urban and creative economies. Tours of active, deteriorating, or defunct red-light districts draw thousands of tourists every year in multiple municipalities around the world. When cities celebrate significant anniversaries in their histories, local sex worker narratives are often included in arts-based public offerings. When sex workers take up urban space in their day-to-day lives, however, they are criminalised. Urban developers often view sex workers as existing serviceably only as legend. A history of sex work will add allure to an up-and-coming neighbourhood, lending purpose to its reformation into a more appropriately productive space, but the material presence of sex workers in these neighbourhoods is seen as a threat to community wellbeing and property values. This paper considers how sex workers, continuously displaced from environments they have carved out as workspaces, may use the arts to draw attention to these ongoing contradictions. It investigates how sex workers may make visible the idiosyncratic state of providing vitality to a city’s history while simultaneously being excluded from its living present. Most critically, it suggests ways in which sex workers may encourage those involved as producers and consumers of neoliberal urban revitalisation projects to connect these often fatal paradoxes to the laws that criminalise their labour.

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McLaughlin, Janet, Don Wells, Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, André Lyn, and Biljana Vasilevska. "‘Temporary Workers’, Temporary Fathers: Transnational Family Impacts of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program." Articles 72, no. 4 (January 11, 2018): 682–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1043172ar.

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Summary Under Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), migrant workers come to Canada for up to eight months each year, without their families, to work as temporary foreign workers in agriculture. Using a ‘whole worker’ industrial relations approach, which emphasizes intersections among work, family and community relations, this article assesses the impacts of these repeated separations on the wellbeing and cohesion of Mexican workers’ transnational families. The analysis is based primarily on 74 in-depth, semi-structured interviews that were conducted in Spanish with male workers, their spouses and children, and with the children’s teachers. Assessment criteria include effects on children’s health and educational success, children’s behaviour, mothers’ abilities to cope with added roles and work, and emotional relations among workers, children and spouses. The study findings suggest that families are often negatively impacted by these repeated separations, with particular consequences for the mental and physical health of children. Children’s behavioural challenges often include poor school performance, involvement in crime, drug and alcohol abuse (especially among sons), and early pregnancies among daughters. As temporary ‘single moms,’ wives often have difficulty coping with extra functions and burdens, and lack of support when their husbands are working in Canada. Typically, there are profound emotional consequences for workers and, frequently, strained family relations. The article concludes by offering practical policy recommendations to lessen negative impacts on SAWP workers and their families, including higher remittances; improved access to labour rights and standards; and new options for family reunification.

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Argyropoulos, K., K. Krikonis, P. Alexopoulos, D. Avramidis, P. Gourzis, and E. Jelastopulu. "COVID-19 lockdown and its impact on mental health in various population groups in Greece: A cross-sectional study." European Psychiatry 64, S1 (April 2021): S666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1768.

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IntroductionCOVID-19 pandemic and lockdown has brought a serious impact on physical and mental health.ObjectivesThe purpose of the present study was to estimate the impact of the first lockdown in Greece, on both quality of life and anxiety levels in different occupational groups.MethodsA cross-sectional on- line survey was conducted from 20th of April to 4th of May 2020. A 24-item anonymous questionnaire was administered to collect basic demographic and socioeconomic data. The 5-item WHO Well-Being Index (WHO-5, 0-100%, cut-off 52%) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) tools were used to assess well-being and anxiety, respectively. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS for Windows v.24.0 Statistical Package.ResultsA total of 575 participated in the study, 62.8% females, 48.5% aged between 40 to 59 years. 32.5% were employed in education sector, 32.5% in health sector and 20.3% as season workers in tourism sector. Males showed slightly higher levels of wellbeing (52.1 vs. 47.3, p=0.023) and lower levels of anxiety (7.1 vs. 8.2, p=0.023) compared to females. Factors associated with higher wellbeing and lower anxiety were higher education and income level, optimism, taking less protection measures, and being seasonal worker. Furthermore, participants with comorbidities and symptoms like headache, musculoskeletal pain, as well as feeling depressed or stressed revealed lower wellbeing and higher anxiety scores.ConclusionsOur study revealed an overall poor wellbeing and mild to moderate levels of anxiety during the lockdown. Actions should be taken to address and to prevent its serious impact on mental health.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

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Collins, Jamie E., Leslie I. Boden, Daniel A. Gundersen, Jeffrey N. Katz, Gregory R. Wagner, Glorian Sorensen, and Jessica A. R. Williams. "Workplace Integrated Safety and Health Program Uptake in Nursing Homes: Associations with Ownership." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21 (October 28, 2021): 11313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111313.

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Workers in nursing homes are at high risk of occupational injury. Understanding whether—and which—nursing homes implement integrated policies to protect and promote worker health is crucial. We surveyed Directors of Nursing (DON) at nursing homes in three US states with the Workplace Integrated Safety and Health (WISH) assessment, a recently developed and validated instrument that assesses workplace policies, programs, and practices that affect worker safety, health, and wellbeing. We hypothesized that corporate and for-profit nursing homes would be less likely to report policies consistent with Total Worker Health (TWH) approaches. For each of the five validated WISH domains, we assessed the association between being in the lowest quartile of WISH score and ownership status using multivariable logistic regression. Our sample included 543 nursing homes, 83% which were corporate owned and 77% which were for-profit. On average, DONs reported a high implementation of TWH policies, as measured by the WISH. We did not find an association between either corporate ownership or for-profit status and WISH score for any WISH domain. Results were consistent across numerous sensitivity analyses. For-profit status and corporate ownership status do not identify nursing homes that may benefit from additional TWH approaches.

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Nisanci, Aslihan, Rumeysa Kahraman, Yusuf Alcelik, and Ulviyenur Kiris. "Working with refugees during COVID-19: Social worker voices from Turkey." International Social Work 63, no. 5 (July 14, 2020): 685–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872820940032.

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This short essay aims to share social workers’ experiences of working with refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Three of the authors work in different non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in different cities. NGOs play a vital role in the delivery of psychosocial support services to refugees in Turkey and have been inevitably affected by the pandemic. The major practice challenges are being unprepared for tele-social work, a decrease in financial resources, increasing barriers to resources, and threats to refugee children’s wellbeing. Finally, suggestions are made for the near future.

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Cox, Edward, Simon Walker, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Alexandra M. Clarke-Cornwell, Stacy A. Clemes, Melanie J. Davies, et al. "The Cost-Effectiveness of the SMART Work & Life Intervention for Reducing Sitting Time." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 22 (November 11, 2022): 14861. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214861.

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Sedentary behaviours continue to increase and are associated with heightened risks of morbidity and mortality. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of SMART Work & Life (SWAL), an intervention designed to reduce sitting time inside and outside of work, both with (SWAL-desk) and without (SWAL-only) a height-adjustable workstation compared to usual practice (control) for UK office workers. Health outcomes were assessed in quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) and costs in pound sterling (2019–2020). Discounted costs and QALYs were estimated using regression methods with multiply imputed data from the SMART Work & Life trial. Absenteeism, productivity and wellbeing measures were also evaluated. The average cost of SWAL-desk was £228.31 and SWAL-only £80.59 per office worker. Within the trial, SWAL-only was more effective and costly compared to control (incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER): £12,091 per QALY) while SWAL-desk was dominated (least effective and most costly). However, over a lifetime horizon, both SWAL-only and SWAL-desk were more effective and more costly than control. Comparing SWAL-only to control generated an ICER of £4985 per QALY. SWAL-desk was more effective and costly than SWAL-only, generating an ICER of £13,378 per QALY. Findings were sensitive to various worker, intervention, and extrapolation-related factors. Based on a lifetime horizon, SWAL interventions appear cost-effective for office-workers conditional on worker characteristics, intervention cost and longer-term maintenance in sitting time reductions.

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R, Devi. "A study on retention strategies in mm forgings limited, chennai." Journal of Management and Science 8, no. 4 (December 30, 2018): 351–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/jms.2018.31.

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Employee Retention includes taking measures to urge workers to stay in the association for the most extreme timeframe. It is a procedure in which the workers are urged to stay with the association for the most extreme timeframe or until the fulfillment of the task. Representative maintenance is useful for the association and in addition the worker. Successful representative maintenance is a deliberate exertion by businesses to make and cultivate a domain that urges current workers to stay utilized, by having strategies and practices set up that address their differing needs. Maintenance of key workers is basic to the long haul wellbeing and accomplishment of any association. Retaining the best representatives guarantees consumer loyalty, expanded item deals, fulfilled associates and detailing staff, compelling progression arranging, and profoundly inserted hierarchical information and learning. Worker maintenance matters, as authoritative issues, for example, preparing time and venture, lost information, uncertain representatives, and an exorbitant hopeful pursuit are included. Henceforth, neglecting to hold a key representative is an exorbitant recommendation for an association. Different evaluations recommend that losing a center administrator in many associations costs up to multiple times his pay. Corporate is confronting part of issues in representative maintenance nowadays. Procuring educated individuals for the activity is fundamental for a business, yet maintenance is much more vital than enlisting.

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Diver, Sarah, Nicola Buccheri, and Chandra Ohri. "The value of healthcare worker support strategies to enhance wellbeing and optimise patient care." Future Healthcare Journal 8, no. 1 (January 20, 2021): e60-e66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2020-0176.

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Ratuva, Steven. "Social work in the Pacific: The humble and unrefined views of a non-social worker." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 30, no. 4 (June 17, 2019): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol30iss4id605.

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I once worked in a university where sociology and social work were part of the same department, which I headed. I observed how social work, more than most “disciplines,” was readily responsive, quickly adaptive and empowering with the potential to be readapted and aligned to suit different socio-cultural contexts. From the vantage point of a non-social worker, this makes it resilient and relevant in a fast-changing world where conflict, wealth accumulation and the creation of expanding subaltern classes take place simultaneously. As peripheral “participants” in the process of corporate, technological and cultural globalisation, Pacific Island countries (PICs), often see themselves increasingly subaltern in the global economic and political power game as manifested in increasing poverty, social dislocation, debt, crime and other social problems.A growing capacity for responsiveness, adaptation and empowerment requires a critical approach to understanding the complexities of social dynamics and impact on human wellbeing. Social work crosses the arbitrary boundaries between sociology, anthropology, psychology, development studies, conflict/peace studies, education and health and this trans-disciplinary approach makes it well positioned to address issues such as inequality, poverty, alienation and marginalisation which are common amongst subaltern groups, including those in the Pacific (Sherif Sherif, 2017). Social work also has the potential to bridge the gap between theory and practice in what Marxian scholars refer to as “praxis” (Freenberg, 2014). Its strength is also in keeping human wellbeing as the central focus in its analysis.

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Straughan, Elizabeth R., David Bissell, and Andrew Gorman-Murray. "Exhausting rhythms: the intimate geopolitics of resource extraction." cultural geographies 27, no. 2 (September 30, 2019): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474019879108.

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This article develops cultural geographical understandings of exhaustion through an exploration of the bodily pressures induced by mobile working practices. Through analysis of semi-structured interviews with resource sector workers in Australia who work away from home for periods of time as well as ‘left behind’ partners, we argue that exhaustion is a collective ‘structure of feeling’, but one that is differently experienced by mobile workers and partners. Tracing the diverse rhythms of compression and decompression that are experienced by workers and partners both at home and away, our focus on temporality connects the exhaustions experienced at resource extraction sites with exhaustions experienced in the home. By providing an important temporal focus to debates on intimacy-geopolitics, we explain how rhythms instigated by resource work are complicit in generating structures of feeling that compromise wellbeing within the home. We conclude that the exhausted bodies of mobile worker households are an obscured casualty of our current resource-intensive lives.

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